Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing · Kansas

Topeka Burrito Plant

Topeka, KS · ~157 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Topeka Burrito Plant runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Topeka Burrito Plant: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Topeka Burrito Plant safety composite

Topeka Burrito Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Topeka Burrito Plant: 6.7 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2018

Topeka Burrito Plant's TCR rose 4.5 from 6.7 in 2016 to 11.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Praters
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Topeka Burrito Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Topeka Burrito Plant averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Topeka Burrito Plant TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=11.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Topeka Burrito Plant falls in its industry

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac employers in Kansas.

Topeka Burrito Plant (157 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Topeka Burrito Plant
Topeka Burrito Plant (157 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Topeka Burrito Plant has fewer employees than the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 11.2 8.6 21 1 0
2017 6.2 5.2 12 0 0
2016 6.7 5.5 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · KS · Topeka

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Praters 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYNEAR FOODS USA LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athens Foods Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heggies Pizza LLC 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aristocrat Motors 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE KANSAS CITY WEST, KS - 3361 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0521 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00070 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR 0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cochran Infiniti of North Hills 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawton SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Montevista 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Emc - Gwinnett 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Farmingdale, Ny 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lisk Trucking Inc 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trig's Rhinelander 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverport 157 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.